Tree loves Peggy
Little blond haired Peggy (with her ridiculously cute pigtails) put her tiny hand on the large oak tree that filled up the majority of her mothers backyard. A brilliant April sun hung in it's morning...
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I'm starting to hate the word "funny". We are ruining that word by using it to describe everything. It is becoming the ranch dressing of adjectives. "This food tastes funny." is something we say...
View ArticleGoodbye JBJ from The Cloud King
My apologies for spamming my blog subscribers. I was in the process of wrapping up my blog and burying my posts into an archive when it started emailing out all my old (and I mean old!) enteries. I'm...
View ArticleA Reflection From A Sissy
We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.Rachael Taylor Last week my face hurt like a son-of-a-motherless-goat. It wrecked me with a level of pain that I'm certain I...
View ArticleAbandoned Words Have Lit Signal Fire.
Sorry my bloggy blog has been largely unattended. I have things I want to write.I have stories to tell.I know the words I want to use.I just haven't used them yet. I've left these words...
View ArticleNo Matter What
Five years ago I wrote the following piece while blogging on MySpace. Yikes..MySpace....I'm still on some serious antibiotics because of that place.Anyway, this is what I wrote for World Autism...
View ArticleThe 4th Generation Itch
"We can't choose our family." is one of those cliched phrases that we all say to each other at cocktail parties where we all stand around and try and prove that our bloodline is the bat-shit craziest...
View ArticleQuiting The Mob
It's time to quit being in The Mob.There is safety in numbers only as long as you are on the right side of them. It's easier to be in the heart of a mob than to be on the outside of it.Being outside...
View ArticleInto The Stream (part three)
Part Three of ThreePart OnePart TwoMy wife said to me that I was going to be 40 soon!??!!What the what?How dare she do something so cruel!!Where does she get the nerve to say that out loud!!!!!40 is...
View ArticleInto The Stream (part two)
Part Two of Three Part One can be found here: Into The Stream (part one)So this is what road kill feels like....Laying on your back in the middle of the street can cause you to rethink everything. As...
View ArticleInto The Stream (part one)
It seems like ice has become my tormentor. The theme continued last evening. Part One of ThreeEXT - Night. Residential Sidewalk Two Blocks Away From JOHN's Townhome. JOHN is walking his dog down an...
View ArticleWalking on frozen water takes a lot of faith.
Since my heart is being quickly overrun by bacon grease I decided a few weeks ago to start jogging. It is a brutal experience for me, as I have the fitness level of a bag of Funyons. Every morning I...
View ArticleTo hell with their "Hard Truth"
A few days ago I was having a fantastic breakfast with a couple friends. We got into a discussion of if there was a time in my life where I let somebody's criticism of me affect who I was. I couldn't...
View ArticleFour Things About Last Stand
The target audience for Last Stand must be old men who have not been able to let go of the action movies of the 80's. All of the trailers before the movie started consisted of near-elderly cinema...
View ArticleSome really good food for thought
A fantastic article by Noel Murray of the AV Club on pop cultures uneasy relationship with it's portrayal of "nerds" or people living with autism. I find a ton of truth in what he is preaching...so...
View ArticleFour Things About SIlver Linings Playbook
This movie forced me to shift uncomfortably in my seat about 3000 times. There were a number of scenes that were very hard to watch because of how deeply the characters on screen were suffering....
View ArticleThe Four Things About Mama
Mama is a pretty spooky film where a lot of individual scenes really bothered me. The problem is, as a whole the movie was uneven in it's ability to scare. It was derailed in the last act of the...
View ArticleThe Four Things about Zero Dark Thirty
I think that Jessica Chastain performance as a CIA operative in 'Zero Dark Thirty' was certainly worthy of the Golden Globe. She takes us on a cathartic journey in her exhaustive hunt for Bin Laden....
View ArticleThe Armpit Hair Of Change.
"Everybody's changing and I don't feel the same" - KeaneI have always planned on having a couple of real solid nervous breakdowns before my time on Earth is done....
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